“It’s Fookin’ Terrible. We Hate This Song!”
Some great questions today heavily themed around songwriting! Thank you all for watching this channel regularly, it means a lot to me. I’m hoping to try out some new formats on here to see what you might like, maybe some longform episodes that are more discussion based. Let me know what you think!
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@JustinHawkinsRidesAgain
October 30, 2025 at 10:06 am
In case you were wondering, The Darkness are going on tour in January with Black Stone Cherry across the UK if you fancy coming along for a night of rock: https://www.thedarknesslive.com/tour-dates/
@raven_of_zoso455
October 30, 2025 at 10:06 am
If the world ever comes to it sense and elect me as our world leader. My first order on the agenda is to remove Henley and Frey's monopoly on Temporary Accommodation Sunshine State, give the rights and credits to Felder and Walsh instead against agreeing to not monetise fair use of the song. Henley and Frey will receive a final payment for giving up the rights and credits, the payment will consist of a one-way ticket and permanent citizenship to Somalia, where I am sure they will feel right at home.
On a dark desert highway,
Cold wind in my hair,
Warm smell of a oil refinery,
Rising up through the air,
Up ahead in the distance,
Two pirates with rifles equipped,
Our hands are bound, and we are escorted onto a nameless ship
Welcome to the Hotel Mogadishu,
Such a lawless place, (such a lawless place)
Such a moral disgrace,
There's plenty of thieves at the Hotel Mogadishu,
Any time of year, (any time of year)
You'll get robbed and sodomized here
@summermcpherson8209
October 30, 2025 at 10:06 am
Opinion heavily respected on "With a Woman". However, it's my favorite Darkness song!
@brandonward5465
October 30, 2025 at 10:06 am
Everybody Have a Good Time is literally my favorite song off of Hot Cakes 🤣🤣🤣
@Tedrino
October 30, 2025 at 10:06 am
With a Woman is an absolute cracker of a song – one of your best riffs
@BarbaraAntoinetteVeronica
October 30, 2025 at 10:06 am
I don't know what is going on with my cellphone, but it just decided to not let me like. STOP knocking yourself. You fans love you. I'm a fan, but I know you're a person, a father, husband, brother, son. And God willing a grandfather one day. Ok?
@Ofthegirl09
October 30, 2025 at 10:06 am
I like Everybody Have a Good Time, but yes really pop. I saw a couple of videos with Justin destroying his guitar during this song, and he always looked pissed when having to sing it. Good entertainment tho!
@karencooper3428
October 30, 2025 at 10:06 am
This is a personal question, and no worries if you don't feel it correct to answer it. I've been wondering what your sexuality is? xxx
@CortinasAndClassics
October 30, 2025 at 10:06 am
HI Justin, Not sure if you have already done this but how do you personally rank all the Darkness albums? Personally my top 2 are Last of our Kind and Permission to Land
@davidputnam6427
October 30, 2025 at 10:06 am
Don't be upset over 'Everybody Have a Good Time'! I, at least, LOVE it and think the lyrics fit perfectly as the opening song to the MUCH awaited Hot Cakes. The very first message we heard since Hot Leg was that we could finally have a good time, because The Darkness was FINALLY BACK!!! And they came back kicking ass, beating the shit out of the bad guys, and heroically defending the oppressed. The video is THE GREATEST VIDEO OF ALL TIME!!!! You've given me, at least, immeasurable amounts of joy by releasing that song.
@xs1207
October 30, 2025 at 10:06 am
With a woman
Superb song
Can’t believe you don’t like it Justin, it rocks
@drewpd7
October 30, 2025 at 10:06 am
Everything on hot cakes rules! I hope you come back around to loving both the tracks you hate. Or at least “with a woman”. Broke my heart to hear you say that was one of the hated 3.
@thefredkalis
October 30, 2025 at 10:06 am
5:26 "open fire" that song is ginormous.
@martymayhem2286
October 30, 2025 at 10:06 am
Justin, are you mental? "Everybody have a good time" is a belter of a song and should be the national anthem. I think it will be a sleeper and rise to the top of the charts soon. In the words of the legendary Viv Savage (RIP) "Have a good time …. all of the time". Cheers Marty.
@KCnLex
October 30, 2025 at 10:06 am
Actually your music was popular during a time I was very ill, brain tumor.etc and having recently discovered your channel, I am just being introduced to you. I started watching you after your Beato interview. I have kept watching you because you are remarkably candid, interesting and funny. I thought your interview was very good and am hoping you do more of them in the future as well as looking at other musicians works.
@sarah2798
October 30, 2025 at 10:06 am
Happiness reminds me of being with my kids before they started at school, they loved that song! 😂
@rupertcaney
October 30, 2025 at 10:06 am
Interestingly the 2 songs you hate from Hot Cakes currently have the most streams from that album (Spotify). With A Woman and Everybody Have a Good Time
@alexbennett5724
October 30, 2025 at 10:06 am
Seemed like a good idea at the time is my fav
@jimbob2184
October 30, 2025 at 10:06 am
Justin, how did it come about for you to be on stage with Spinal Tap in 2009? I believe you were playing a guitar shaped like the Apollo Spacecraft.
@scottmoyle879
October 30, 2025 at 10:06 am
Please go jogging in a proper sparkly jump suit.
@neilburns8869
October 30, 2025 at 10:06 am
I agree, it's important to try and get some fresh air and to stretch the legs a bit.
You do, feel better for having done so afterwards.
@HansKarlsson1971
October 30, 2025 at 10:06 am
New theme song…Juuuuustin Hawkins ruuuuuns again….agaiiiiiin…. 😉
@talboner
October 30, 2025 at 10:06 am
Living each day blind is my fav song off the hot cakes album, that guitar solo at the 4:15 mark is amazing
@jogo2000
October 30, 2025 at 10:06 am
Kudos for picking up jogging!
@matb3954
October 30, 2025 at 10:06 am
'With a woman' came out around the time I started dating my wife, and I had not too long before left a relationship that I wasn't happy in. The lyrics and emotions in this song captured what I was feeling perfectly and I love it!
@philwillett9102
October 30, 2025 at 10:06 am
I don't think you can blame the record company for writing a "bad" song….Own your "shit" man!
At the end of the day, the poor execution is on you
@jeffcahill5722
October 30, 2025 at 10:06 am
"father, I think I've sheet meself"
@divingwithfriends
October 30, 2025 at 10:06 am
Ohhh, i love "with a woman" wasn't expecting it to be on your top 3 most hated songs hahaha such a surprise there
@ΕλένηΤσαλίκη-φ1ζ
October 30, 2025 at 10:06 am
Everybody had a good time is superb. The video rocks and the song is AWESOME
@mrg24385
October 30, 2025 at 10:06 am
"She's just a girl, Eddie" should have been a single from Hot Cakes ¯_(ツ)_/¯
@suzanneharry5855
October 30, 2025 at 10:06 am
Everybody Have A Good Time’, should have been a huge hit. If you had had the big monster corporate label machine promoting it and shoving it out into the public it would have a global hit. Today unless you sell your soul to the corporate music mafia you don't get the global public platform on radio and big media that makes hits. Sad but true. Don't blame this wonderfully infections song, its the corrupt system that makes hits.
@alancx523
October 30, 2025 at 10:06 am
Oh FINALLY, at LAST……. A Darkness song I really like: Open Fire!!! Been struggling with the fact that I love this little channel, but never liked any Darkness tracks what so ever, in any way… An now, we have a total banger!!! Phew 🙂
@BTW13981
October 30, 2025 at 10:06 am
I love Happiness! 😢
@h4ndrix
October 30, 2025 at 10:06 am
With A Woman is actually 🔥🔥🥺 delicious tones too.
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